LaSalle County Board approves land-use special uses and multiple highway funding agreements; buys tower site; adopts election-judge pay increase

At its March 10 meeting the LaSalle County Board approved a string of ordinances and resolutions covering land use permits, highway resurfacing and shoulder projects, bridge appropriations, intergovernmental cape-seal agreements, a property purchase for a communications tower, and an ordinance setting election-judge pay.

Key outcomes (votes and short descriptions):

- Land use approvals and variance - Ordinance 25-04, Joyce A. Tolte Trust: approved a special use to expand a nonconforming ATV sales and service use at 2498 N. Fifteenth Road in Streeter (A1 district). Motion carried by voice roll call; outcome: approved. - Ordinance 25-05, Sam Beats & Sons: approved a special use to expand a commercial grain storage facility at 4798 E. Fifth Road, Mendota Township (74-foot diameter bin and enclosed dump pit building). Motion carried; outcome: approved. - Ordinance 25-01 VAR, Sam Beats & Sons: variance approved to reduce front/road setback from 70 feet to 50 feet for the same Mendota Township parcel to allow the enclosed dump pit building; Zoning Board of Appeals had recommended unanimous approval. Motion…